I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.
I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
I think I've been an incredible example to my kids of what not to do.
Confessions are meant to reveal universal truths through specific examples.
Going too far is as bad as falling short.
He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
Better a bad wife than an empty house.
There is no such thing as bad food when you are really hungry.
What's good is often forgotten; what's bad is often hidden.
If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.
Look for the good and let the bad things come on their own.
A bad workman always blames his tools.
Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
Nothing so bad but it might have been worse.
Better to die, than to live on with a bad reputation.
I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on his inadequacy in human relations. Winston Churchill was an abysmal failure in his early school years....
Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of it, married or single, no matter who you are or what you are, you are called to the summit of perfection: you are called to a deep interior life perhap...
As a young woman, I schooled my romantic sensibilities on the most impossible examples. "Romeo and Juliet" is one of my favorites. I once plotted out the length of time it took them to conjoin. Four days. Four days for one of the world's greatest sto...
